Short Quotes

But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for a little bit, I can sense it. People don't take as much notice of you, it's really quite palpable.

I'm actually a very shy person, which is why I always chose to be in the kitchen. You can make people happy and entertain them, without really being there. You can make a very short appearance and then say, 'I've got something on the stove, gotta go!'

I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.

IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused.

The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro , like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.

Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.

I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.

When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition?

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.

I think the hardest to replace has been Johnny Collins. He was great to play with. You could always rely on him to be available for a short pass, allowing you time to clear a ball. He would never give the ball away.

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.

Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.

To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

I used to be super trendy and totally sexy. But I look back now and I used to want everything short and low cut and you really can't do it all.

Life is too short to work so hard.

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

Two stops after I got on, these two unbelievable short people got on, and the way they were looking at me, I could tell. They wanted to bite my ankles!